Information on a jetty is in the Register, 'Early Semaphore', including a photograph of a tide watcher's tent in the 1860s, is in the Advertiser, The arrival of Japanese warships and subsequent events are reported in the Register,Ģ0, 22 and 23 April 1910, pages 5c, 7e and 15e. The landing of mail is discussed in the Register,ġ7 and 31 October 1885, pages 7f and 4h-6d,ġ7, 21 and 27 September 1888, pages 7e, 3f and 3f,ģ, 7, 11 and 13 February 1891, pages 5b, 5a, 6a and 4f-5a,ġ1 and 13 February 1891, pages 4f and 4c, While the landing of passengers and mails is traversed on 'The Semaphore Railway Station and the Mail Service' is in the Register, The formation of the Semaphore Boat Club is reported in the Observer, See Register, 2 April 1875, page 6e for a discussion on the canal scheme.Īn account of 'Professor Cavell's Ten-Mile Swim' from Glenelg to Semaphore is reported in the Register,Ī Semaphore to Largs swim is reported in the Register,ģ March 1919, page 4f and bathing facilities onĪlso see South Australia - Sport - Swimming and Bathing. Parliamentary Paper 240/1876 recounts offers to bore a canal across Lefevre Peninsula. Parliamentary Paper 75/1876 talks of improvements to 'Semaphore Harbor', while 'The Proposed Semaphore Canal' is in the Observer, Information on the time-ball is in the Register,Ī poem entitled 'The Tale of the Time Ball Tower' is in the Register,Īlso see South Australia - Miscellany - Clocks and Time.įishing from the jetty is discussed in the Express,Īlso see South Australia - Sport - Fishing. A proposed extension is discussed in the Register,Įstrictions applied to bathing from it are reported onĩ and 12 January 1885, pages 7d and 7f also see Information on the jetty is in the Chronicle,Ī report on a proposed jetty, one-and-a-half miles long, and breakwater near Semaphore is reported in Parliamentary Paper 120/1869-70 - the attached map shows it to be between Wonga Shoal and the entrance to the Port River. (Also see Place Names - Lefevre Peninsula.)Īlso see South Australia - Communications - Sea Mail. Place Names of South Australia - S Semaphore

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